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Unforgiving Sport
An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing
Thomas Hauser
Captures a remarkable year in
boxing—2008
Praise for Thomas Hauser:
“Hauser writes about professional boxing in a way that
no one has ever done before.”
—Playboy
“Incomparable and indispensable.”
—New York Times
“Hauser should be read by critics as well as boosters
of professional boxing.”
—Associated Press
“Hauser has earned his reputation as one of boxing’s
greatest witers.”
—Booklist
Thomas Hauser has become “must reading” in the
boxing community, and his latest book demonstrates why. An
Unforgiving Sport brings together Hauser’s 2008
articles from secondsout.com and espn.com, in which he exposes
the inner workings of HBO Sports, goes behind the scenes at
boxing’s biggest fights, revisits historical figures
like John L. Sullivan, and offers revealing portraits of Don
King, Oscar De La Hoya, Manny Pacquiao, Ricky Hatton, Bernard
Hopkins, and a host of others.
Booklist
praised an earlier collection of Hauser’s articles as
“one more testament to [Hauser’s] talent and passion
for the most elemental of our sports.” An Unforgiving
Sport adds to Hauser’s definitive record of the
contemporary boxing scene.
Thomas Hauser is the author of thirty-seven
books on a wide range of subjects. His first book, Missing,
was made into an Academy Award–winning movie, and his
book Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times is considered
to be the definitive account of the great fighter. In 1996
Hauser coauthored with Ali the book Healing, for
which they won the Haviva Reik Award. In 2004 Hauser won the
Nat Fleischer Award for Career Excellence in Boxing Journalism
from the Boxing Writers Association of America.
October
6 x 9, 350 pages
$22.50 paper
ISBN 978-1-55728-910-0 | 1-55728-910-7
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